Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Haiti and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Soul Sonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cure,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Scrapy,
Trumans Water,
Severed Heads,
The Happenings,
Aural Exciters,
The Skatalites,
Ice-T,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Coltrane,
Lindisfarne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alison Limerick,
Pole,
Black Moon,
Lightning Bolt,
The Seeds,
World's Most,
Scientists,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sonic Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cecil Taylor,
Yusef Lateef,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pere Ubu,
Boredoms,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Surgeon,
The Blues Magoos,
FM Einheit,
David Axelrod,
Gang Green,
Fat Boys,
Agitation Free,
The New Christs,
Lyres,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nirvana,
48th St. Collective,
Johnny Clarke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lalann,
Groovy Waters,
Faraquet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
JFA,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young,
Index,
Soft Cell,
Black Flag,
ABC,
Wire,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.